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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.

George Eliot

There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Defeat Many Victory Worse
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Also Like Love Mind Same Sure Told
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOT

All Hard Know Language Learn Much Suffer Understand
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
GEORGE ELIOT

Effort Fill Life Music Sem Without
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
GEORGE ELIOT

Common Consider Forth Hath Ignorance Knowledge Power Sentence Set
Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
GEORGE ELIOT

Battle Coward Fight Give Man Plunk Sure Sure Lose Win
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
GEORGE ELIOT

Beauty Bless Earth Feel Human Mighty River Wait
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
GEORGE ELIOT

Appearances Happiness Little Very
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bind Duty Lie Pst Us
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOT

Against Fight Fog Ignorance Interpretation Unless Whip
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOT

Finest Language Made Mostly Simple Unimpse Word
One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
GEORGE ELIOT

Happy Learn Many One Spend Year
Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
GEORGE ELIOT

Earth Fit Heaven Jew Most Useful
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
GEORGE ELIOT

Chaff Content Friend Gentile Grain Hand Heart Know Many Own Pour Together
Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
GEORGE ELIOT

City Country Funeral Hemisphere History Image Move Past Procession Seem Strange Visible
“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
GEORGE ELIOT

Country Home Large Ruined Reputation

Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.

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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.

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